Study about the Application of Statistical Process Control for Process Quality Improvement in Automotive Industry

SPC (Statistical Process Control) is one of the Lean Manufacturing techniques, but especially Six Sigma, being a method of improving the quality of the manufacturing process, which allows the identification of errors before their production, with the help of which a process can be supervised and when needed, it is possible to carry out an intervention of regulation, respectively of correction of the process, before being nonconformities. The paper presents a study regarding the use of SPC at a company in the automotive field in order to improve the quality of the manufacturing process for a knuckle. Thus, a number of 25 samples were taken, each sample containing a number of 5 pieces. After sampling, a series of techniques and statistical data were used, respectively diagrams and control sheets, which allowed the determination of the process capability by using MiniTab software.